DarkBlack
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No worries. I planted way too many bushes , to hand pinch all the early years blossoms, and my bushes turned out fine.
Blueberries
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JimRB
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I got two switches maybe 10 years ago when someone from work got 4 switches and only wanted two. My surviving bush is about 4-5 feet tall with decent yields. Last year I would pick berries and spiders. Never had so many bugs as last year. My mom 40 miles north has a different variety that seems to yield a bit earlier. unfortunately someone (not me or her) pruned back too much so her yield will be lower this year.
We do nothing. We have a dog in a fenced yard. Deer do not visit the yard. They will pass through the horse pastures knocking down hot wire. At Mom's the deer will eat things in the yard, not sure that we have lost blueberries though.
We live around metro Atlanta. Soil tends towards acidic.
We do nothing. We have a dog in a fenced yard. Deer do not visit the yard. They will pass through the horse pastures knocking down hot wire. At Mom's the deer will eat things in the yard, not sure that we have lost blueberries though.
We live around metro Atlanta. Soil tends towards acidic.
oosik
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When we lived in Alaska we had a type of blueberry. They were wild and the bushes grew 3 to 4 feet high.
Harvest them the way the natives do. Bend the bush over a card board box and thump on the main stem with a stick. The ripe berries fall into the box. Two and a half gallons per hour was not unusual.
Get them home. Set up a wool blanket on a incline. Roll the berried down the wool blanket. The trash will stick to the wool blanket - the berries roll on by.
Harvest them the way the natives do. Bend the bush over a card board box and thump on the main stem with a stick. The ripe berries fall into the box. Two and a half gallons per hour was not unusual.
Get them home. Set up a wool blanket on a incline. Roll the berried down the wool blanket. The trash will stick to the wool blanket - the berries roll on by.
paulsharvey
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I thought it was this thread, but I can't find it now; wasn't someone talking about 'fall producing black berries'? I know I saw/read/heard recently something about them; but had never seen anything before about a fall producing berry. Even did some reading on the UF/IFAS site, and nothing. I would be interesting if there is such an plant.
ponytug
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I don't think it was here.
You might look or ask around for "ever bearing" varieties, but I don't know what grows well in your area. I have heard that "Darrow" and "Freedom Prime Ark" produce berries into the fall.
All the best,
Peter
You might look or ask around for "ever bearing" varieties, but I don't know what grows well in your area. I have heard that "Darrow" and "Freedom Prime Ark" produce berries into the fall.
All the best,
Peter
paulsharvey
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It seems Arapaho, Chickasaw, and Oklawaha are the primary recommended cultivars around here for black berries due to chilling hours.
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No help on blackberries, but we have yellow raspberries that produce once crop in the fall on that year's canes, a small crop the following spring/early summer, and another crop in the fall, then die.
DarkBlack
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I think Stark Bros used to market a couple of them
jyoutz
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I have fall bearing raspberries. IDK about blackberries. If you plant either, try to find a primocane variety, not flouricane. Primocane varieties bear from new canes annually, allowing you to cut the canes to the ground in the winter and start with new canes growing from the roots. It allows you to burn the old canes that might harbor insects or disease.